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mate. When Bela left on vacation, he invited me to “house sit” his home,
which I did, alone, as he instructed.

Just before Christmas, I received a Christmas gift, like all the
management members in Dhahran, from Fred Davies. It was a bushel
basket full of a variety of kinds of liquor. Veigh Neilson’s wife, Janet,
sent me a box of homemade cookies. It was very thoughtful and kind of
her, but by the time the box got to me, it had been opened and sampled
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practices, I tossed the cookies in the wastebasket, but sent Janet a note of
thanks. It was a lonely Christmas. The weather turned cool and we had
a couple of short rainstorms that left puddles in the street. The weather
was cold enough, a couple nights, that there was actually a thin cover of
ice over such puddles. That was the coldest weather I ever saw in Ara-
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mediately spent some time with the General Manager and Fred Davies
to assess my performance in his absence. According to him, they were
very pleased. He sent me to see Fred Davies. Mr. Davies made me an
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a. My salary, which had been $600 per month during my foreign as-
signment, would be increased to $800.

b. I would be promoted three grades in the salary structure.

c. I would be made eligible for family housing immediately.
d. I would be allowed to return to the States to get Jean and the kids
and bring them back with me. This trip would be dressed up as a
recruiting trip because I would be asked to go to San Francisco and
Los Angeles to try and recruit more fellows with job evaluation ex-
perience.

My new job would be Superintendent of the Organization and
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boost in my career. Now my question was whether Jean would like
such a move. I wrote her immediately and she replied that all she knew
of the area was what I told her in letters and she would support what-

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